Am 05.07.2013 16:59, schrieb TommiT:
On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 23:28:41 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 21:48:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/2/2013 1:47 PM, TommiT wrote:
Division operator for strings doesn't make any sense,
That's why overloading / to do something completely unrelated to
division is anti-ethical to writing understandable code.
s/division/"The common agreed upon semantic"/
The classic example of this is the overloading of << and >> for
stream operations in C++.
Or overloading ~ to mean "concat" ?
It's rather C++'s std::string which overloads the meaning of + to mean
"concatenation". I wonder if some other programming language has
assigned some other symbol (than ~) to mean "concatenation". I guess
math uses || for it.
Visual Basic uses &
Perl and PHP use .
Ocaml uses ^
Just from the top of my mind, surely there are other examples.
--
Paulo
